Type: Regular Rulemaking

Status: Public notice of modified text provided July 18, 2025. Public comments are being accepted through August 11, 2025.

Summary:  The Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) is proposing a rulemaking action to revise existing regulations to remove redundant and duplicative provisions; streamline operational and administrative burdens for licensees and the Department; and establish minimum sanitation standards.

Specific changes include:

• Clarifying tracking and labeling of harvest batches.
• Extending the time limit for temporary events to 30 days.
• Allowing cultivation licensees to transfer immature plants and seeds to a nursery.
• Allowing cultivation licensees to transfer immature plants and seeds to another cultivation premises owned by that licensee.
• Deleting the requirement to submit a pest management plan at the time of application.
• Deleting the requirement to submit electricity reporting with a renewal application and to purchase carbon offsets.
• Establishing minimum sanitation standards for licensees that handle exposed cannabis.

View the rulemaking documents

• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
• Proposed Text of Regulations
• Initial Statement of Reasons
• Notice of Modifications to Proposed Regulation Text
• Proposed Modified Regulation Text
• Notice of Extension of Written Comment Period and Rescheduling of Public Hearing

Public comments process

If you wish to comment on the proposed regulations, you must submit your comment in writing to DCC during the public comment period. Verbal comments cannot be accepted.

DCC Legal Affairs Division
2920 Kilgore Road
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
publiccomment@cannabis.ca.gov

Public hearing

You can also submit your comment verbally through a virtual public comment hearing that will be held on Tuesday, August 12, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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